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Should You Pay for Flights With Amex Platinum or Chase Sapphire Reserve? and more...  In This Issue...  Should You Pay for Flights With Amex Platinum or Chase Sapphire Reserve?  New Pre-Reclined Airline Seats are Awful – But They’re Just a Sympton of the Real Problem  American Airlines Flight Attendants Will Start Offering Onboard Compensation This Month  Delta Adds Minimum Spend Requirement to Elite Status Challenges, United Doesn’t  Redemptions for Kimpton Hotels Now Live at IHG Rewards Club  Star Alliance Member EVA Air Introducing New Amenities to All Classes  12 Best Credit Card Signup Bonuses in the New Year  More Recent Articles Should You Pay for Flights With Amex Platinum or Chase Sapphire Reserve? 'm effectively buying trip delay coverage with the points-earning foregone. I use Chase Sapphire Reserve for less expensive tickets, and the Platinum Card by American Express for more expensive tickets. And my break point is around $500. Continue reading Should You Pay for Flights With Amex Platinum or Chase Sapphire Reserve?...          • Email to a friend •   New Pre-Reclined Airline Seats are Awful – But They’re Just a Sympton of the Real Problem Two weeks ago I wrote that British Airways is introducing seats with 29 inches of pitch and no recline. That's an inch less space than Ryanair offers from seat back to seat back. Since word of BA's new seats without recline came out the buzz word has been that they're pre-reclined, a phrase I first heard from former Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza. It's a silly statement, but it's also true that their seats aren't completely upright. Continue reading New Pre-Reclined Airline Seats are Awful – But They’re Just a Sympton of the Real Problem...          • Email to a friend •   American Airlines Flight Attendants Will Start Offering Onboard Compensation This Month The idea of compensating customers onboard is hardly new. You can contact customer relations after a flight, you can even get a proactive email from an airline after a flight, but the immediacy of onboard compensation can quell problems while you're still stuck in a metal tube and frustrated. American Airlines is rolling out this capability next month, loading iSolve software onto flight attendant tablets. Continue reading American Airlines Flight Attendants Will Start Offering Onboard Compensation This Month...          • Email to a friend •   Delta Adds Minimum Spend Requirement to Elite Status Challenges, United Doesn’t American Airlines status challenges cost money to sign up for and include a minimum spend requirement although the airline also occasionally will directly status match a United or Delta top tier elite member. In a rare instance of Delta following American (although to be fair Delta was first with minimum spend for elite status) their elite status challenge program requires minimum spend not just minimum travel. And there's on other change as well. Continue reading Delta Adds Minimum Spend Requirement to Elite Status Challenges, United Doesn’t...          • Email to a friend •   Redemptions for Kimpton Hotels Now Live at IHG Rewards Club IHG folded Kimpton and its Karma Rewards program into IHG Rewards Club. In the process they sanitized the benefits offered to elites, although they're maintaining Kimpton's top 'Inner Circle' level as an invitation-only program similar to Intercontinental properties and Royal Ambassador, with no public criteria for how members will earn it. The upside to all of this is supposed to be for IHG Rewards Club members generally, more nice and interesting properties to use there points at. And that is now live on the IHG website. Continue reading Redemptions for Kimpton Hotels Now Live at IHG Rewards Club...          • Email to a friend •   Star Alliance Member EVA Air Introducing New Amenities to All Classes There are a number of minor service changes that EVA Air is making. But the fact that they're paying attention to the minor details like this is part of what makes them a quality carrier. They offer one of the better business class products in the world, and good service throughout the cabin. There's new pajamas and even menu covers in business class, new bedding in premium economy, and even gourmet snacks in coach on Hong Kong flights. Continue reading Star Alliance Member EVA Air Introducing New Amenities to All Classes...          • Email to a friend •   12 Best Credit Card Signup Bonuses in the New Year There's no quicker and easier way to earn a large amount of miles quickly than with a new credit card. And before the holidays is the perfect time to get one, because it’s even easier than the rest of the year to meet the minimum spending required to earn signup bonuses. Every month I post what I find are the best signup bonus offers out there. Over the past several months we’ve seen several that are new and bigger. As a result there are a bunch of great cards to sign up for. Here are the cards I consider to have the very best signup bonus offers right now: Ink Business Preferred℠ Credit Card has an 80,000 point signup bonus after $5000 spend within 3 months. That can even be enough for a roundtrip business… Continue reading 12 Best Credit Card Signup Bonuses in... 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